How can students communicate well in school as well as outside of school?
Summary:
In three days, students will learn how to communicate with others with different ways including face-to-face, writing letters and cards, and phone. In order to help students gain such skills, lectures and practical activities (having conversations between two students and writing cards and letters) will be applied in this class.
Objectives
Students are able to initiate a conversation with others and receive what they want from their conversations.
Students are able to successfully write formal and informal cards, letters, and emails.
Tasks:
First day will talk about communicating through writing: Making questions to find out student's knowledge or skills about communicating through writing email, letters, and cards; enhancing skills that students do not know much or not know well through lecture, actual practical activities (writing birthday card for friends, writing letter to parents, siblings or friends; writing email to their classmates in computer lab; collecting their work)
Second day will focus on phone communicating: Exploring how students often start or answer a call (making questions), showing students how to achieve their purpose in different types of phone talks (lecture), activities (practicing fate calls; recording a call with someone at home and report it in class on the next day).
Third day will talk about face-to-face communication: gathering student's understanding about direct communication (group discussion activity); correcting and clarifying their understanding; having students practice conversation with their partners(recording their conversations and having them listen to their talks).
>
Personalization/Differentiation
Allowing students to practice their most familiar communicating style. At the same time, encouraging them to practice communicating types that are complicated to them because the more they know the more benefit they have.
Real-World Connection
Making conversations with peers in class, with friends and family members at home, communicating with distant friends and other people through emails, letters, and phone.
Assessment:
Comparing student's performances from their participate activities, grading their actual works (written letters, birthday cards, and phone records), observing their communicating skills in and out class.
Resource:
computer lab, birthday cards, digital record
Examples:
Links to teacher or student examples.
Reflection:
Reflect on the experience with specific details about the instructional outcome, pedagogy, tool effectiveness,
and student engagement. Include any student feedback about the activity.
Put a Short Activity/Lesson/Project Title Here
- First day will talk about communicating through writing: Making questions to find out student's knowledge or skills about communicating through writing email, letters, and cards; enhancing skills that students do not know much or not know well through lecture, actual practical activities (writing birthday card for friends, writing letter to parents, siblings or friends; writing email to their classmates in computer lab; collecting their work)
- Second day will focus on phone communicating: Exploring how students often start or answer a call (making questions), showing students how to achieve their purpose in different types of phone talks (lecture), activities (practicing fate calls; recording a call with someone at home and report it in class on the next day).
- Third day will talk about face-to-face communication: gathering student's understanding about direct communication (group discussion activity); correcting and clarifying their understanding; having students practice conversation with their partners(recording their conversations and having them listen to their talks).
>and student engagement. Include any student feedback about the activity.